SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

Part 3Enactments relating only to Northern Ireland

Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))

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1

Article 15 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (adoption by one person) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (3)(a), for the words from “or, by virtue of” to “other parent” substitute “ or, by virtue of the provisions specified in paragraph (3A), there is no other parent ”.

3

After paragraph (3) insert—

3A

The provisions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) are—

a

section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (disregarding subsections (5A) to (5I) of that section), or

b

sections 34 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (disregarding sections 39, 40 and 46 of that Act).